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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Three Commentators on the Beat Generation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Six Gallery reading take place?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) New York.
(d) San Francisco.

2. When was Ray Bremser born?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1934.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1945.

3. Herbert Huncke introduced William S. Burroughs to _____________.
(a) Peyote.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Marijuana.

4. In what year did Neal Cassady die?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1985.

5. What is Jack Kerouac's fictionalized name in the novel Go?
(a) Hart Kennedy.
(b) Paul Hobbes.
(c) Albert Ancke.
(d) Gene Pasternak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Ann Waldron born?

2. Who is Jack Kerouac known as in On the Road?

3. Where was Ed Sanders born?

4. Where did Allen Ginsberg grow up?

5. What label did the Beats resent, according to "The Game of the Name"?

(see the answer key)

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